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Updated: May 26, 2025
"At the Hôtel de Noailles. Am I to kill him?" he asked excitedly. "No," said the taller nun. The gendarme stepped up towards the beggar. "I arrest you for mendicity," he said, just about to lay his hand on his shoulder. The beggar who bore a red nose started back with an alacrity unexpected of so aged a man. He took to his heels, and, with tatters flying, fled like an arrow from the Avenue.
Whoever is virtuously disposed, and holds a mystical communication with God, is sufficient of a hermit without requiring the bread of charity, or the crumbs of mendicity. The tapering finger of the lovely, and her soul-deluding ear-lobe, are decoration enough without a turquoise ring or ear-jewel.
The pride, that had rendered him so obnoxious to his humbler neighbours, yielded at length to the inordinate craving for drink; the man who had held himself so high above his honest and industrious fellow-settlers, could now unblushingly enter their cabins and beg for a drop of whiskey. The feeling of shame once subdued, there was no end to his audacious mendicity.
Many Bedouin huts and tents of the tribes of Faham These Bedouins also rear a few sheep; but although poor, they keep themselves quite distinct from the lower classes of the Mekkawys, whom they scorn to imitate in their habits of mendicity. Some few of them are water-carriers in the city.
Barrere made a report on the extirpation of mendicity, and the assistance the republic owed to indigent citizens. All these reports passed into decrees, agreeably to the wishes of the democrats.
In the streets of cities in China some deplorable objects are to be met with, as must always be the case where mendicity is a legalised institution; but I am inclined to think that the rigour with which the duties of relationship are enforced, operates as a powerful check on pauperism.
People with small means sometimes have generous impulses in connection with money rich people, never. My lord, with forty thousand a year; Sir John, with property in half a dozen counties those are the men who never forgive the genteel beggar for swindling them out of a sovereign; those are the men who send for the mendicity officers; those are the men who take care of their money.
I was dressed as if I were on the Boulevards at Paris. If I were to try the same joke at Paris, the sergents-de-ville would very properly think it their duty to walk me off to the nearest police-station. The Pontifical Government encourages mendicity by the protection of its agents, and recommends it by the example of its friars. The Pontifical Government does its duty.
It is commanded that every one should practise some trade, art, or profession. Work done in a faithful spirit of service is accepted as an act of worship. Mendicity is strictly forbidden, but work must be provided for all. A brilliant anticipation! There is to be no priesthood apart from the laity. Early Christianity and Buddhism both ratify this.
He was in great need of money and was forced to do what he could, as a man of letters, with his talents and knowledge. He had again to be the homo poeticus or rhetoricus. He writes polished letters full of mythology and modest mendicity. As a poet he had a reputation; as a poet he could expect support.
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